312 LYCANIDA. CH&TOPROCTA. 
877. Ohetoprocta odata, Hewitson. (PLaTE XXVII, Fic. 204 @). 
Défpsas odata, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 65, n. 6, pl. xxx, figs. 13, 14, ale (1865); id., Moore, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 507, n. 113 ; idem, id., 1. c., 1874, p. 272, N. 71s 
HapiraT: Western Himalayas. 
Expanse: 6, 9, 12 to 1°4 inches, 
DESCRIPTION : ‘‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings with the basal half violet-blue, the outer 
half dark brown, paler on the hindwing. Ci/éa white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings grey-white. 
Forewing with a pale linear spot at the end of the cell, two small dark brown spots near the 
middle of the inner margin, a transverse rufous band beyond the middle, bordered on both sides 
with white, and a submarginal band of pale brown terminating near the anal angle in two large 
black spots. Azxdwing with a spot at the end of the cell, a medial transverse rufous band and 
a submarginal brown band, both bordered with white ; two lunular orange spots near the base 
of the tail, bordered above and below with black, the outer margin brown, FEMALE does not 
differ from the male, except that the whole of the 2izdwizeg is rufous-brown.” (Hewz7tson, 1. c.) 
Larva when full-grown about *6 of an inch in length ; onisciform, nearly cylindrical ; 
coloration a pale rose pink, vinous, or pale yellowish-green ; second segment anteriorly round- 
ed, third, fourth, and fifth slightly progressively wider, thence slightly tapering to the anal seg- 
ment, which is about subequal in width to the third and rounded posteriorly ; the divisions between 
the segments fairly well marked ; the entire upper surface widely pitted throughout, covered 
with minute tubercles bearing very short bristly hairs, the latter much longer on the lateral 
edge of the body ; spiracles inconspicuous, concolorous ; head small, entirely retracted beneath 
the second segment, anteriorly and laterally black, smooth, shining, posteriorly ochreous, the 
ochreous colour extending on to the middle of the head in a square figure, the entire head 
sparsely covered with rather long white hairs; the body is practically unmarked, there being 
only a slightly darker dorsal line ; the under surface is pale green. Mr, Mackinnon describes 
the larva as possessing ‘‘ a yellow dorsal stripe, wide on the second segment, narrower to sixth, 
from thence to anal segment narrow.” Feeds on the walnut. Pupa of the usual lycenid 
shape, nearly cylindrical, head rounded, thorax very slightly humped and constricted posteriorly, 
abdomen ending ina blunt point ; coloration dark reddish-brown, sparsely covered above with 
‘short hairs. 
The above description has been drawn up from numerous specimens sent me in spirit, and 
a few alive, and a single live pupa, by Mr. P. W. Mackinnon of Masuri. He informs me that 
the larve are not attended by ants, though he has watched them carefully for many days, and this 
is probably correct, as I can find no trace with a strong magnifying glass of the special organs 
affected by ants, nor can I, by pressure, make the live larvee extend those often found on the 
twelfth segment. 
Mr. Wood-Mason has given me the following note on the clusters of eggs of this butterfly 
which have been sent me by Mr. P. W. Mackinnon from Masuri for examination :—** The 
abdomen bears at its extremity a huge smoothly convex semioval mass nearly as large as the 
thorax. This mass is made up of innumerable modified scales which are so arranged and so 
closely packed together that their united free ends form a smoothly rounded dead whity-brown 
solid-looking velvety surface. The scales are whity-brown in their apical half, black in their 
setiform basal half. A number of them is attached by the black end fanwise nearly all round 
the oral pole of each egg, so as to conceal all except a small (less than a fourth part) of it.” 
“ The eggs are attached to the surface of the walnut twigs in elongated masses, consisting of 
five longitudinal rows, which appear to be covered with quincuncially-arranged imbricated 
scales throughout, except at one end, where a portion of one egg is left exposed. A study of 
an egg-mass shows that the first four or five eggs are laid in a line transverse to the long axis of 
the completed mass, and so that their fanned sides are turned away from, and their exposed sides 
turned towards, the end of the insect’s body, then four or five more are added so that their fans 
cover the exposed portions of the first row, and so on till the mass is finished, the last egg of 
which is necessarily left partially exposed, for the eggs as they pass out of the oviduct are coated 
